[AG-TECH] Unicast-Multicast bridges?

[Markus Buchhorn]

Hi Mike

At 01:52 PM 6/02/2002 +0000, Mike Daw wrote:
>I wonder whether anyone has had a look at this liveGate / multikit
>tunnelling combination (thanks, Marcus)?

To confess, I haven't tested liveGate here myself yet, just the other tools 
Ross has on his site.

Since I don't see an answer on the list as yet, can I suggest asking Ross 
directly? (cc'ed) He's always been very helpful on the various 
mbone/rem-conf lists. Ross, thread left below for your info.

Cheers,
         Markus

>Omer Rana (Cardiff) and I have been trying it out with some success,
>although unfortunately we've hit a problem. The unicast end is able to
>receive audio just fine, but not send it. The unicast end can see all the
>rat members (including themselves). The multicast end can't see the unicast
>end in rat. (We haven't tried out video.)
>
>We thought it might be the ttl setting, but no. We have hit a blank with
>ideas.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>If anyone wants to try it out to have a look, we'd be grateful too. If
>you've never used it before, getting a rat session down the tunnel is not
>exactly intuitive, but I can share our hard-won experience. (When it works,
>I am more than willing to write an AGDP bit so everyone can benefit from
>this software that looks pretty good. Then we'll no longer have to rely on
>those kind folks at Argonne for a bridge!)
>
>--Mike
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov]On
> > Behalf Of Markus Buchhorn
> > Sent: 29 January 2002 23:42
> > To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> > Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Unicast-Multicast bridges?
> >
> >
> > G'day y'all
> >
> > One more data point/product for this thread - Ross
> > Finlayson's www.live.com
> > has a unicast/multicast bridge that he's been working on for
> > ages, and
> > still is afaik. Bunch of other really cool tools there as well.
> >
> > Not sure I recall the name (liveGate?), and his site is
> > unreachable at the
> > moment (some routing loop b/n exodus.net and megapath.net?).
> > But certainly
> > worth a look when it is :-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >       Markus
> >
> > Markus Buchhorn, Information Infrastructure Services,   | Ph:
> > +61 2 61258810
> > Markus.Buchhorn at anu.edu.au, mail: CompSci,CSIT Bldg #108|Fax:
> > +61 2 61259805
> > Australian National University, Canberra 0200,
> > Australia|Mobile: 0417 281429
> >


Markus Buchhorn, Information Infrastructure Services,   | Ph: +61 2 61258810
Markus.Buchhorn at anu.edu.au, mail: CompSci,CSIT Bldg #108|Fax: +61 2 61259805
Australian National University, Canberra 0200, Australia|Mobile: 0417 281429